PC Gaming Alliance Formed [Feb 20, 2008, 10:29 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Top technology companies form gaming alliance (thanks Mike Martinez) officially
announces the formation of the gaming alliance first revealed last week
(story) to help promote/revive the PC gaming scene. Here's word:
Some of the top technology companies, including Intel, Microsoft, Dell, and Advanced Micro Devices joined forces Tuesday to form the PC Gaming Alliance, which will try to promote the PC as a gaming platform.
The alliance will bring hardware makers, software companies, and game publishers under one roof to "accelerate innovation, improve the gaming experience for consumers and serve as a collective source of market information and expertise on PC gaming," the alliance said in a statement.
The companies will work together on challenges facing the PC gaming industry, including piracy and the establishment of hardware requirements for PC games, the alliance said. PCGA also hopes to accelerate growth of the PC gaming industry and standardize the development of gaming PCs and software by developing and promoting guidelines.
The alliance comes at a time when PC video game sales are falling. PC games sales in the U.S. were $910.7 million in 2007, down from $970 million in 2006, according to research from NPD Techworld. PC game sales in 2007 dwarfed in comparison to the sale of software for video game consoles like Sony's PlayStation and Nintendo's Wii, which were $6.6 billion.
Unit shipments of PC game software totaled 36.4 million in 2007, compared to video game software unit shipments of 153.9 million, according to NPD.
The U.S. gaming industry already has the Entertainment Software Association, which represents vendors that publish games for both computers and consoles. About 90 percent of the $7.4 billion revenue of PC and console gaming software in 2006 belonged to ESA members, giving the association a dominant presence.
Other PCGA members include Acer, Epic, Nvidia and Razer USA.
The announcement comes during the Game Developers Conference, which is being held in San Francisco. During the show PCGA member Intel launched a new gaming platform formerly code-named "Skulltrail." The Intel Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform includes two quad-core microprocessors, totaling eight-processing engines, and supports graphics cards from ATI or Nvidia.
So the Alliance first move to save PC gaming is the announcement of a processor that, alone, will cost more then a console!?!
Pretty much sums it up, games are not even using the power we have now and they are already upping the anty, friken hardware cold war, why not get the shit you already have on the market working correctly instead of pushing out new shit that doesnt work. This alliance is nothing but a bunch of bullshit, Axis would be a better term to use.
Microsoft even being on the list is an insult, I remember one of Bills big speeches when the Xbox first hit the market, his vision was that every houshold used a M$ console for all there entertainment needs, and that is the path they are on. Theres no room for PC games in that vision.
Bring games to the front where they can be seen? LOL how about they stock the games period, how many times I have wanted to pick up an older game that I had passed on due to time and lo and behold I cant get it anywhere. Shit there are new games out now that I cant find in the stores. You want PC sales up, dont try to sell me new hardware, GET THE FUCKING SOFTWARE IN THE STORE!!!
meh now I'm pissed off, fucking PC gaming alliance my ass.
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." Benjamin Franklin
Skulltrail... 2x quadcore processors... I'm still waiting for games to be natively coded to fully utilize 2 cores.
Pretty much sums it up, games are not even using the power we have now and they are already upping the anty, friken hardware cold war, why not get the shit you already have on the market working correctly instead of pushing out new shit that doesnt work. This alliance is nothing but a bunch of bullshit, Axis would be a better term to use.
Microsoft even being on the list is an insult, I remember one of Bills big speeches when the Xbox first hit the market, his vision was that every houshold used a M$ console for all there entertainment needs, and that is the path they are on. Theres no room for PC games in that vision.
It would probably help if retailers would bring the PC games back up front instead of keeping them in "PC Software" next to MS-Word and Norton Anti-Virus on a shelf in a back corner that's completely disorganized. Target and Circuit City are the worst offenders I've seen.
Bring games to the front where they can be seen? LOL how about they stock the games period, how many times I have wanted to pick up an older game that I had passed on due to time and lo and behold I cant get it anywhere. Shit there are new games out now that I cant find in the stores. You want PC sales up, dont try to sell me new hardware, GET THE FUCKING SOFTWARE IN THE STORE!!!
meh now I'm pissed off, fucking PC gaming alliance my ass.
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." Benjamin Franklin
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